Sailor toy



April 5, 1927; 1,623,039

v. BABBIITT SAILOR TOY Filed June a, 1926 Patented Apr. 5, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAILOR TOY.

Application filed June 8, 1926. Serial No. 114,484.

This invention relates-to a figure toy of the general character shown by my application for Letters Patent for sailor. toy, filed September 12, 1925, Serial No. 55,955, the object of the invention disclosed by said application being stated therein to be to provide a toy suitable for small children, and more particularly to impart to the relatively movable members of such toy movements which simulate the roverbial rolling gait of a sailor. This obJectis accomplished in the structure shown by said application by providing a wheel base on which the body of the toy is mounted, by so mounting such 5 body that it is capable of a swinging movement laterally and by connecting the body with cranks on the wheel base by means of leg' members so appended to the body that, when the wheelbase isrolled over the ground, the cranks give a forward and back, up and down, movement to the legs, and the up and down movement of the legs is transformed into a lateral swinging movement of the body.

The present invention is embodied in certain improvements on the structure disclosed by said application, the object being to provide a toy including a figure constructed substantially as before, a platform supporting the figure, and running gear wholly supporting the platform and enabling-it to run like a cart on a floor with the figure perpendicular to the floor so that the toy as a whole may be drawn or pushed like a cart, and means operable by a rotating axle of therunuing gear to impart to the figure movements simulating a rolling gait or walk.

Of the accompanying drawings,

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of a figure toy embodying my improvements; 1

Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same;

Fig. 3 is a plan view looking toward the bottom ofthe toy;

Fig. 4 is a fragmentary view on a larger scale than the preceding figures, showing partly in section and partly in elevation portions of the platform, the toy figure and the mechanism which imparts movement from an axle to the figure;

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary perspective view showing separably the three armed lever shown in plan by Fig. 3, and in section by Fig. 4., the lower portions of the legs of the figure, and portions of the connecting rod crank 14:, and traction wheels 15 fixed to V the axle and adapted, when rotated by running on a floor, to rotate the axle. The

running gear is adapted to sup-port the platform at a predeteri'nined height above a floor so that'it may be moved like a cart, no other support being required. In this instance the running gear includes also an axle .16 spaced from the driving axle 13 and provided with traction wheels 17, the wheels 15 and 17 providing a four part wheel base, the center of gravity being between the wheels 15 and 17. It is obvious, however, that a single centrally located traction wheel may be substituted for the two wheels 17, thus providing a three part,

wheel base.

The axles 13 and 16 maybe journalled in bearings formed in ears 19 on a marginal stiffening flange 2O integral with'the platform. Fixed to and rising from an end portion of the platform is a standard 21 in the upper end of which is journalled a pivot 22 fixed to the body 23 of the toy figure. The pivot may be the shank of a screw driven into the body, the latter being preferably of wood.

The figure may be constructed substantially as shown by my former application and may include a head 24, arms composed of flexible portions 25 and balls 26 simulating hands, andiegs composed of flexible portions 27 and balls 28 simulating feet, the balls 26 and 28 being preferably of wood and provided with sockets receivingthe ends of the flexible portions 25 and 27. The flexible portions are secured in sockets in the body preferably as shown by my former application.

I provide connections between the axle crank 14:, the body 23, and the feet 28, adapted to swing the body laterally and the legs forward and backward when the axle 13 is rotated. said connections being preferably'organized as-next described. Pivoted to the platform, preferably by an eyelet 29, is arocker in the form of a three armed lever including a hub portion 30 having an orifice 31 (Fig. engaged with and adapted to turn on the eyelet 29, two alined arms 32 projecting oppositely from the pivot, and an a "m 33 projecting at right angles with the arms lVith the arms 82 are engaged headed studs extending through arcuate slots 36 in the platform and fixed to the feet 28, said studs being preferably screws driven into the feet and having heads bearing on the under sides of the arms 32.

The arm 33 has a slot 37 receiving the wrist portion of a. lower crank formed on a. mck sl-iaftd0. Said rock shaft journalled in a lower bearing d1 (Fig. t) in the platform, and an upper bearing 42' which may be a staple or screw eye fixed to the standard 21. The rock shaft is provided with an upper crank 43, the wrist portion of which loosely enters a socket in the lower end of the body 23. The socket may formed by boring a hole in the body and inserting an eyelet l5 as a bushing in the hole. l6 designates a connecting rod or pitman connecting the axle crank 1+1- with one of the arms 32 of the three armed lever. One end of the rod has an eye at? embracing the wrist portion of the rank, and the other end has an offset tongue l8 inserted in an orifice in an ear :9 on the lever arm 32.

W hen the toy is moved along a floor or other support, the axle crank 1% is revolved, and through the pitman 46 causes the oscillation of the three armed lever in a hori zontal plane. he oscillations of the lever arm 33 cause it to act through the crank 39, rock shaft 40, and crank 43, to oscillate the body 23 on the center formed by the pivot 22. and its bearing in the standard 21, the body being caused to oscillate laterally so that when viewed from the front the head an d the upper portion of the body are swung aiternately to the right, as indicated by full lines, and to'the left as indicated by dotted lines, the lower portion of the body being swung oppositely from the upper portion.

The oscillation of the alined lever arms 32 causes said arms to move the studs laterally forward and backward, thus causing the studs to swing the legs forward and backward or, in nautical parlance, fore and aft, one foot and leg swinging forward while the other is swinging backward. These movements cause the action of the figure to satisfactorily simulate that of a sailor who has acquired a rolling gait by following the sea. The sidewise oscillating movements of the body cause the movements of the hands and arms indicated by full and dotted lines in Fig. 1, the hands rising and falling. The feet 28 do not rise and fall. but move forward and backward in curved paths, the legs 27 being sufliciently flexible to permit them to conform to the movei'nents of the body and the feet.

The body pivot 22 is loose in its bear-nu); in the standard 21, so that it may be variously tilted thereon to permit the body and head to rock slightly, as indicated by full and dotted lines in Fig. 6.

It will be seen that the toy is adapted to run on a floor without being supported in part by the operator, so that it may be drawn over the floor by a pull cord or attached to the platform.

I claim:

1. A; toy comprising platform, running gear wholly supporti the platform and including a crank axle and traction wheels fi.{(-3(l thereto, a support ms from the platform, a body pivoted to said support with provision for lateral swinging motion, movable legs depending from the body, and connections between the axle crank, the body, and the leg adapted to the body laterally and the legs fore and it.

2. A toy comprising a platform. running gear wholly supporting the platform and ineluding a crank axle and traction wheels fixed thereto, a support rising from the platform, a pivot stud fixed to the body and journalled loosely in a bearing in the support to permit a lateral swinging motion, and a rocking motion of the body and pivot, movable legs depending from the body, and connections between the axle crank, the body, and the legs adapted to swing the body lat erally and the legs fore and aft.

3. A toy comprising a carriage having supporting wheels and a rising figure support, a figure toy pivoted to said support and adapted to swing sidewise, a crank driven by one of said wheels. a rocker pivoted to said carriage and coupled to sait crank, and connections between said rocker and the legs and body, respectively, of the figure toy for imparting swinging movement thereto.

dQA toy comprising a carriage, wheels supporting said carriage, a crank connected and rotatable in unison with one of said wheels, a support. on the carriage, a figure toy simulating a human figure pivoted by its body to said support with provi ion for sisdewise swinging movement, a rocker pivoted to the carriage and coupled to said crank to be rocked thereby, said rocker having arms connected to the leg members of the figure toy and movable to swing said leg members back and forth oppositely to one another, and mechanism between said rocker and the body of the figure for imparting sidewise swinging movement to the latter.

5. A toy comprising a carriage, wheels sup-porting said carriage, a crank connected with one of said wheels to be driven thereby, a rocker pivoted to said carriage and coupled to said crank, being formed with oppositely and laterally extending arms, a support on the carriage, a toy figure having a body pivoted to said support with provision for swinging sidewise and having legs coupled to the arms of said rocker, and means for imparting swinging movement to said body also connected to said rocker and operable thereby.

6. A toy comprising a carriage, wheels supporting said carriage, a crank connected with one of said wheels to be driven thereby, a rocker pivoted to said carriage and coupled to said crank, being formed with oppositely and laterally extending arms and an intermediate arm, a support, a figure toy having a body and legs pivoted by its body to said support and connected through its legs with said opposite lateral arms, and a substantially upright rock shaft mounted on the carriage having two arms, one of which is connected to said body and the other to the intern'iediate arm of said rock lever in such manner as to impart rocking movement to the body from the rocker.

7. A toy comprising a platform, running gear wholly supporting the platform and including a crank axle and traction wheels fixed thereto, a supportrising from the platform, a body pivoted to said support with provision for lateral swinging motion,fiexible legs depending from the body and including feet, a three armed lever pivoted to the platform, a pitman connecting an arm 01 said lever with the axle crank, an upstanding rock shaft journalled in bearings on the support and platform and having a lower crank engaged with another arm of said lever and an upper crank engaged with the body, and studs connecting arms of the lever at opposite sides of its pivot with the feet, the lever being oscillated horizonally by the axle crank and pitman, and imparting rocking movements to the rock shaft to swing the body laterally, and lateral movements to the studs to swing the legs fore and aft.

In testimony whereof I have aflixed my signature.

EDWIN V. BABBITT. 

